Famous Homeless

Below are some famous women who apparently had been homeless before. I have tried to provide verification, where possible, on their stories.

Halle Berry told US Weekly that she lived in a shelter for a time. http://www.usmagazine.com/halle_berry_1

Kelly Clarkson apparently is mentioned in the September 23, 2002 US Weekly. She is quoted as saying "'My apartment [building] burned down; my car got towed twice,' recalls Clarkson, who, with nowhere to go, lived in a homeless shelter for several days."

Eartha Kitt lived in subways, according to IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0457755/bio . She also snuck on to the roofs of apartment buildings to sleep. Quoted in the NY times: "When I see the homeless now, I empathize," she told Kaufman in the New York Times. "I know there but for the grace of God go I," she continued.

Lil' Kim: USA Today Weekend: "At 8, she and her mom left Kim's abusive father. 'There was a time when my mother and I were living out of the trunk of her car', Kim says over drinks at the Soho Grand Hotel. 'We slept in the back seat.'" http://www.usaweekend.com/02_issues/020630/020630celeb_lilkim.html

Rose McGowan apparently was quoted in Interview Magazine in 1997: "I was homeless for a year. I teamed up with this other girl - I met her the first day I was on the streets - and we roamed all over Oregon and Washington." http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1285/is_n3_v27/ai_19481688/pg_2

Ella Fitzgerald: It is well known that Ella spent years as a struggling, homeless teenager before she was discovered in a singing competition.

Sally Jesse Raphael: It is written in her biography "An Unconventional Success" that she lived in her car for a time.

Debbie Reynolds wrote about living in her car after divorcing Harry Karl. IMDB writes: "At one particularly low point in her career, she confessed to literally living in her car, a Cadillac." http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001666/bio

Joan Rivers lived in her car. Apparently it was noted in a book called "Storms of Perfection"

Hillary Swank: Reader's Digest quote: "In 1989, when she was 15, Swank and her mom packed up their Oldsmobile Delta 88 and, with just $75, headed to Los Angeles. They lived in the car until a friend gave them a place to stay. Swank's mom used a pay phone to book her daughter for auditions." http://www.rd.com/content/hilary-swank-interview/